The New TechCrunch Europe Top 100 Index. Are You In it?
February 03, 2010 at 07:06 AM EST
Last summer, at the inaugural Europas Awards , we launched the TechCrunch Europe Top 100 Index of the most innovative and highest-potential European tech companies. This has been the first time anyone has tried to actually track, in a pre-defined way, early stage tech companies in Europe. We've now updated the Index, which is focused on mobile and web companies in the EMEA region, once more. As you can see , there are companies that are staying in the Index, some arriving and some, alas, leaving. The companies that have made great progress in the last few months are ones that have being doing important things like generating revenue. It's quite clear from the refreshed Index that European startups know how to make money (in particular through e-commerce, private shopping, lead-generation and games). The Silicon Valley business model of scale and user acquisition, while still a hugely important arrow in the European startups quiver, is still just part of the equation, especially in a wide European market so divided by language and regulation. Although I'd like to see more European startups thinking globally from the start, and going for growth, no-one is saying one shouldn't have at least half an eye trained on where the business model is going to come from.